For the last decade, female football has enjoyed an increasing popularity and number of players mainly due to the creation of a number of women's footballer associations principlayy in the US and in Great Britain.

The thing is, football is still regarded as a man's sport whether we like it or not and there's still a long road ahead for women to receive a salary close to men's stratosferic earnings. The average income for a female player in the United Stated can be of around 27.000 $ for a seven month contract, which is far lower than what Cristiano Ronaldo earns in a month, a whooping 882.000 dollars a month! Even if we compare women's salaries to the average earningss of male professional players, the gap is embarrassing.

In Britain, the average wage for professional women (in teams like Arsenal or Chelsea) is between 2,000 and 4,000 pounds, depending on how good they are. Although this amount is higher than any average worker in any other profession, the numbers still look pale compared to what their male counterparts earn weekly in the Premier League or in any other men's league.